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RE: Shrimp?

Nikita — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:22:10 GMT

In all likelihood the leaf fish would eat them. Those fish are carnivorous and are attracted to small moving prey like shrimp. I'm not saying it would happen immediately, but one day you will likely return to find missing shrimp and some very fat and happy leaf fish.

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benr661 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:50:38 GMT

I was thinking of putting a couple Bamboo shrimp into my 29gallon community tank. i have a few rainbows, an eclipse cat, 2 corys, and soon to be 2 spotted leaf fish. Do you think they will be ok? i know the rainbows can be nippers. the cats will leave it alone...what do you think?

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Finny — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:53:10 GMT

Shrimp are neat. Especially my Vampire shrimp!!

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FattFishy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:14:29 GMT

Ghost shrimp are really hardy. I've had mine since the beginning of the very first tank and is still alive. As a ghost shrimp's life isn't very long, I wasn't in this hobby for a year yet.

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pufferrocks — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:30:16 GMT

I have 2 ghost shrimp in my 3 gallon betta tank. They are pretty cool to watch trying to find food in the gravel. They are rather short lived though.

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weezel77 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:55:27 GMT

i try to keep at least 10 ghost shrimp in my tank. they only cost 25 cents at my local pet store so if they get ate they get ate. they help keep my decorations and gravel clean.

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jfish13 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:17:55 GMT

I someday want flower shrimp!!.:D

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Hailey — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:55:31 GMT

Yeah, they do need brackish to full strength sea water to metamorphose.

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David Lass — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:53:41 GMT

Bamboo shrimp are my favorites, I think. In my planted 20 gallon that doesn't have a filter, but has a HOB filter on the back without any cartridges, just to move some water around, the bamboo shrimps sit at the flow from the HOB. One of them is carrying eggs/babies under her tail. I seem to have read somewhere that the babies need a saline phase like Amano shrimps. We'll see.

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stvnw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:13:21 GMT

I have 2 bamboo shrimp in my tank along with tetras and a little green cory. They do a good job of scavenging fine food particles off the bottom and they love to sit near my CO2 difusser pump which always emits a good stream of water and wave their fan like appendages in the currentd to catch food. They are very cool little creatures to watch!

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FisheLady — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:04:35 GMT

That's neat! Wish you had some pics.:)

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FisheLady — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:00:12 GMT

I used to have shrimp and snails in my community setup. At the time at had 7 tiger barbs in a 29 gallon and within 24 hours all 10 ghost shrimp had disappeared. The Golden Apple snail I was told I had ate my plants faster than they could grow. When I removed it to a 2 gallon bowl, it disappeared the next 2 days. I would love to have some shrimp to help keep the bottom of my tank clean.

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randymac — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:03:37 GMT

i've got 2 lil ghost shrimp with my 3 platys. They like sitting on top of my pleco for some odd reason.

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Maraqua — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:48:54 GMT

I voted yes even though the 2 red cherry shrimp I had died a few days ago Long story but basically I did have them for 2 months wasn't a water thing I believe they felt out numbered by fish and it stressed them out big time!!

At anyrate getting a 2.5 gallon and going to have a shrimp garden with only cherry shrimp, can't wait will post pix here :D

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Miller — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:06:31 GMT

No but I have brine shrimp in a little tank I bought my brothers for Christmas

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DazzleDiscus — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:26:21 GMT

I have a bamboo shrimp in my community 30gal whose name is BB. I'm waiting (trying to be patient ) for a fish store to be able to order some cherry shrimp for me. They said that they would only come available in the summer... sigh. :D My bamboo shrimp is bright red with a cream stripe down his back and has seven cream spots on both sides of his body. He's awesome!

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Loachy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:41:43 GMT

I don't.But maybe someday.

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fredburger999 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:50:53 GMT

I have 9 ghosties in my 20. I moved them from my "Shrimp in a Jar" setup.

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jfish13 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:31:28 GMT

I used to have ghost shrimp but they died off.

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octopuslover — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:31:05 GMT

I have a bamboo shrimp in my 55 gallon and 1 ghost shrimp in a 1 gallon. I really like my bamboo shrimp!

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clownloach112 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:31:33 GMT

Yeah but at least he is happily eating in gluttony i used to have peacock eels and i never saw them eat. Infact i didnt even see them for over three weeks and even longer but never really swiming

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Conner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:24:25 GMT

The only downside I have, is that no matter how many shrimp I put in my 20g, my tire track eel will eat EVERY SINGLE ONE! He's one heck of a glutton. That's why I had the ghost shrimp stocked in my quarantine tank, so I could add them one or two at a time for snacks.

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clownloach112 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:20:21 GMT

yeah i have some ghost shrimp in my 55 gallon tank to feed my Rope Fish and my Clown Loach their cheap they feed my fish and they look cool i dont see a downside :D

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Conner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:15:01 GMT

The biggest concern for keeping shrimp is to make sure none of the fish in the tank will eat them. If it is a shrimp only tank, then that isn't a concern.

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seattled77 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:03:51 GMT

I don't but i've been tempted. I don't know much about keeping them.

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Conner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:06:48 GMT

Yes and no. I have 4 ghost shrimp with my betta, because he doesn't bother them. I had lots of ghost shrimp (20 plus) in my 10g quarantine, to help clean up and as feeder shrimp for my tire track eel. My 20g has a tire track eel in it, so any shrimp that go in there disappear in (usually) less than 24 hours.

I've now slowly transferred all the ghost shrimp from my 10g to my 20g (my eel has loved this), because my german rams in the 10g are spawning for a second time. The shrimp like to eat the eggs/wrigglers if they can get them.

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Armand — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:59:02 GMT

I do!